Setting up Relationships in the Context of new Asset Efficiency Service Offerings

Sammanfattning: One of the most current situations for businesses to deal with is the highly competitive markets. Organizations often deal with this by including more services into their offerings to become more attractive to their customers, termed servitization. Despite this, there is considerable concern when it comes to the implementation of some kinds of services, more specifically Asset Efficiency Services (AES). There is a gap in the existing literature regarding how suppliers should approach their customers for AES implementation. This study investigates how suppliers should set up relationships to succeed with new AES offerings. A qualitative approach, that conducts a case study of a Swedish service company, is used in this study to collect data through semi-structured interviews with both suppliers and customers to accumulate two perspectives. A thematic analysis was utilized to analyze the collected data. Empirical findings show important aspects for the suppliers to consider while approaching customers with AES. The conclusion points out implications for the suppliers that are supported by existing literature, to establish advantages for implementing services. Moreover, the study contributes to new perspectives from highlighted aspects while approaching customers with AES that couldn’t be found in the existing literature.